Taiwanese Americans
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Languages | |
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English, Chinese (Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Eastern Min), Formosan languages | |
Religion | |
Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Chinese Americans, Hong Kong Americans, Hoklo Americans, Hakka Americans, Overseas Taiwanese, Overseas Chinese |
Taiwanese Americans (Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人) are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan.[3]
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of California. New York and Texas have the second and third largest Taiwanese American populations, respectively.[4] Notable Taiwanese Americans include Joy Burke, Elaine Chao, Steve Chen, Andrew Cherng, Michael Chang, Yuan Chang, David Ho, James C. Ho, Tony Hsieh, Jensen Huang, Min H. Kao, Justin Lin, Jeremy Lin, Lisa Su, Katherine Tai, William Wang, Nymphia Wind, Constance Wu, Michelle Wu, Andrew Yang, and Jerry Yang.
Immigration history
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Taiwanese
In 1949, the
Before the late 1960s, immigrants from Taiwan to the United States tended to be "mainland Chinese" who had immigrated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang (KMT) after the fall of mainland China to the Communists. Later immigrants tended to increasingly be Taiwanese benshengren, or Han Taiwanese whose ancestors had already lived in Taiwan before 1949. Taiwanese immigration to the United States began to subside in the early-1980s due to improving economic and political conditions in Taiwan.
Socioeconomics
Education
Chinese culture places a high value on education, and many Taiwanese Americans are very highly educated and hold advanced degrees from numerous prestigious universities around the United States. Several distinguished academics, including Nobel Prize winners, are Taiwanese Americans.[10][11][12]
Financial and
Ethnicity | Bachelor's degree or Higher | High school graduate or higher |
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Taiwanese | 78.8% | 95.7% |
Indian | 75.7% | 92.7% |
Pakistani | 59.8% | 89.4% |
Korean | 58.9% | 93.3% |
Chinese average | 56.7% | 84.1% |
Vietnamese | 55.8% | 92.3% |
Asian average | 55.6% | 87.8% |
Japanese | 53.7% | 96.1% |
Filipino | 49.8% | 93.5% |
Non-Hispanic White | 34.4% | 90.4% |
General US Population | 33.1% | 88.6% |
Employment
Many Taiwanese Americans work as
Economics
According to the 2009
Settlement
Many Taiwanese immigrants have not settled in the old Chinatowns because they do not speak
While Monterey Park is no longer the largest Taiwanese community in Los Angeles today, Flushing remains the main Taiwanese cultural, commercial, and political center in New York City. In Los Angeles County, California, newer communities such as Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights, Arcadia, San Marino, Diamond Bar, Walnut, San Gabriel, Temple City, are similar to "Little Taipei." However, many annual Taiwanese cultural events (especially during Taiwanese Heritage Week) are still held in Monterey Park. As an attempt to duplicate the Taiwanese success of Monterey Park in Houston, Texas, Taiwanese immigrant entrepreneurs established what is now widely considered as Houston's new Chinatown on Bellaire Boulevard in the mid-1980s. A number of Taiwanese American businesses and organizations still operate and flourish in this part of Houston.
The prestige and performance of particular school districts, as well as access to careers in high-tech firms, have played a significant part in influencing the settlement patterns of Taiwanese Americans. Areas with high concentrations of Taiwanese immigrants include the
From the middle of the 1980s to the 1990s, large numbers of affluent Taiwanese Americans began moving out to upscale neighborhoods such as
Suburbs of Albuquerque also have a moderately sized Taiwanese population.
Similarly, for the past 10 years, Taiwanese have been immigrating to upscale neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Orange County such as Cerritos and Irvine respectively. Cerritos is located in Los Angeles County but borders Orange County and has a large diversity of Asian immigrants. Irvine has a very large Taiwanese population. The Irvine Chinese School, which serves mostly the American-born children of Taiwanese immigrants, is one of the largest Chinese-language schools in the Orange County area.
Taiwanese-oriented strip malls and shopping complexes are typically complete with supermarkets and restaurants. In addition, shops offering imported Taiwanese goods allow for young Taiwanese expatriates in the United States to keep up with the current trends and popular culture of Taiwan. Taiwanese Americans have also brought with them Taiwanese cuisine to the communities they have settled, which, possibly excluding bubble tea, is not generally well known or served outside these aforementioned Taiwanese immigrant enclaves.
U.S. metropolitan areas with large Taiwanese American populations
The list of metropolitan area with a Taiwanese American population of at least 4,000, as of the 2010 U.S. Census[update].
Rank | Metro Area | Region | Taiwanese-Americans Alone or in Combination ( 2010 Census )
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1 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana
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Pacific
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60,478[16] |
2 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island | Mid-Atlantic
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25,573[17] |
3 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
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Pacific
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17,125[18] |
4 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
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Pacific
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16,549[19] |
5 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria | South Atlantic
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7,179[20] |
6 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown | West South Central
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7,109[21] |
7 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue | Pacific
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6,924[22] |
8 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario | Pacific
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5,913[23] |
9 | Chicago-Joliet-Naperville | East North Central
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5,532[24] |
10 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
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West South Central
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5,195[25] |
11 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy | New England | 4,802[26] |
12 | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos | Pacific
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4,722[27] |
Politics
Taiwanese Americans have also gradually increased their political engagement in the public sphere of the U.S. in recent years.
Notable examples include:
- Stephanie Chang (member of the Michigan Senate)
- Secretary of Transportation in the Donald TrumpAdministration)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)
- 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign).
- John Chiang (California State Controller)
- David Chiu (City Attorney of San Francisco and former member of the California State Assembly)
- Shing-Fu Hsueh (Mayor of West Windsor, New Jersey)[28][29]
- Ted Lieu (member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 33rd congressional district.)
- Goodwin Liu (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California)
- District of Columbia)
- Comptroller of New York City)
- Grace Meng (member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 6th congressional district in the New York City borough of Queens, elected in 2008)
- Yuh-Line Niou (member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, elected in November 2016)
- U.S. Representative, 1st Taiwan born Congressman)
- Sherman Wu (civil rights activist and scientist)
- Michelle Wu (Mayor of Boston, elected 2021, former member of the Boston City Council).
- Katherine Tai (United States Trade Representative)
- Andrew Yang (Mayoral candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic primary, presidential candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, and founder of Venture for America)[30]
- Yiaway Yeh (former Mayor of Palo Alto, California)
First generation immigrants and later generations
First and
Organizations
Organizations geared towards Taiwanese Americans include the
The first Taiwanese church in North America, the Winfield Reformed Church in Woodside, Queens, in New York City, was established in 1969.[31]
In 1986, Chaotian Temple from Taiwan has also established a branch temple known as Ma-Tsu Temple in San Francisco Chinatown with the support of Taiwanese American community.[32]
Media
Taiwanese Americans also run several of North America's major Chinese-language newspapers, such as the World Journal based in Queens; and the Chicago Chinese News. However, these influential and highly circulated newspapers are not geared solely to Taiwanese immigrants, but also serve a broader Chinese-speaking immigrant readership. Pacific Journal is a weekly Taiwanese-run newspaper that is geared more exclusively toward Taiwanese readers.
Due to the significant Taiwanese American community, Taiwanese media dominates the Chinese-language airwaves in the United States. Cable and satellite television of Taiwan-based media keeps Taiwanese Americans abreast of news developments and programming in Taiwan. For example, satellite stations
Taiwanese nationality and residency
In the 1960s, many Taiwanese Americans chose to make America their permanent home and had children in the U.S. Most sought refuge from the numerous arrests and executions during the White Terror era of the KMT, the political party which had dictatorially ruled the country. By the late 1970s, improving economic conditions in Taiwan slowed the rate of immigration. During the 1990s, political liberalization in Taiwan encouraged many who had left Taiwan for political reasons to return.
Although the
Unlike their Taiwan-born parents, the American-born second generation do not have
Connection to politics of Taiwan and cultural ties
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Some Taiwanese Americans play an active role in the politics and culture of Taiwan, aided in large part by recognition of
The close connection between Taiwan and the United States has led to some interesting political dynamics. From time to time, the issue of loyalty to Taiwan is raised – for example, in 2008, during his successful Presidential campaign, the fact that
However, this issue has not become a large part of Taiwanese political discourse, largely because links with the United States are so extensive on both sides of the political spectrum that no one can use this issue to gain a significant political advantage. Both the
While
Notable people
See also
- List of Taiwanese Americans
- Hong Kong Americans
- Chinese Americans
- Hoklo Americans
- Hakka Americans
- Taiwanese people
- Han Taiwanese
- Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office
- Taiwan-United States relations
- Taiwanese people in New York City
- Taiwanese Americans in Los Angeles
- Taiwanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area
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External links
- History of Taiwanese Americans Archived 2018-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Formosan Association for Public Affairs Archived 2021-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ITASA - Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association
- UMCP TASA - University of Maryland College Park Taiwanese American Student Association
- Taiwanese American Citizens League
- Taiwanese American Foundation
- TaiwaneseAmerican.org
- Taiwan Center of America
- Taiwanese American Professionals Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- U.S. Census 2000 - People Born in Taiwan